Staff Reporter :
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu MP said that the anti-drug campaign on news media, including cinema halls would be obligatory in accordance with government notification.
He said that the government will also reform a special monitoring cell to eradicate drug addiction from the country in the future.
Information Minister was speaking as the chief guest at a program titled ‘The Necessary of Formation of Tobacco Control Act to prevent drug addiction in Bangladesh’ in the city’s National Press Club on Monday afternoon.
The Manas, a drug addiction preventing organization, arranged the program when its founding President Professor Dr Arup Ratan Choudhury was present as the chair.
The Minister said that government has already increased Tk 300 from Tk 50 as fine for smoking in public place according to the last edition of Tobacco Control Act (amendment).
The Department of Narcotics and the government law enforcing agencies should be more concerned over the application of country’s prevailing Anti-Tobacco Control Act-2005 to prevent drug addiction, he said.
All the organizations or communities have been requested to submit the findings, reports and campaign matters to the Information Ministry, Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) and other concerned portfolios over the drug prevention activities, the Minister said.
Paternal control over the children in childhood is the key-point for preventing the drug addiction, the Law Commission Chairman and the former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque said this while he was speaking as the special guest in the function.
He said that the campaign of anti-drug addiction be enlisted with the text books for every class in the education system.
The monitoring of the concerned department in this regard is more necessary than the formation of act as the members of the law enforcing agencies failed to take tough action against the drug addict people, the Law Commission Chairman said.
He urged the judges, concerned bodies, law enforcers and countrymen to take stern action against the total drug addict system considering the nation’s future.
At least 43.2 percent people of the country is now drug addicted and over 95 percent started their addiction thru smoking. About 63 percent of them are carrier of various infected diseases, said Professor Arup Ratan Choudhury.
He requested the government to ban the production and business of the tobacco and other drug addicted goods from the country.
Two special honorary books over the drug addiction were awarded to the Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and the Justice ABM Khairul Haque.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu MP said that the anti-drug campaign on news media, including cinema halls would be obligatory in accordance with government notification.
He said that the government will also reform a special monitoring cell to eradicate drug addiction from the country in the future.
Information Minister was speaking as the chief guest at a program titled ‘The Necessary of Formation of Tobacco Control Act to prevent drug addiction in Bangladesh’ in the city’s National Press Club on Monday afternoon.
The Manas, a drug addiction preventing organization, arranged the program when its founding President Professor Dr Arup Ratan Choudhury was present as the chair.
The Minister said that government has already increased Tk 300 from Tk 50 as fine for smoking in public place according to the last edition of Tobacco Control Act (amendment).
The Department of Narcotics and the government law enforcing agencies should be more concerned over the application of country’s prevailing Anti-Tobacco Control Act-2005 to prevent drug addiction, he said.
All the organizations or communities have been requested to submit the findings, reports and campaign matters to the Information Ministry, Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) and other concerned portfolios over the drug prevention activities, the Minister said.
Paternal control over the children in childhood is the key-point for preventing the drug addiction, the Law Commission Chairman and the former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque said this while he was speaking as the special guest in the function.
He said that the campaign of anti-drug addiction be enlisted with the text books for every class in the education system.
The monitoring of the concerned department in this regard is more necessary than the formation of act as the members of the law enforcing agencies failed to take tough action against the drug addict people, the Law Commission Chairman said.
He urged the judges, concerned bodies, law enforcers and countrymen to take stern action against the total drug addict system considering the nation’s future.
At least 43.2 percent people of the country is now drug addicted and over 95 percent started their addiction thru smoking. About 63 percent of them are carrier of various infected diseases, said Professor Arup Ratan Choudhury.
He requested the government to ban the production and business of the tobacco and other drug addicted goods from the country.
Two special honorary books over the drug addiction were awarded to the Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and the Justice ABM Khairul Haque.
